Sheila Elias career spans some forty years. She has worked in Miami, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, and has exhibited her paintings, collages, sculptures, photographs and installations in museums and galleries around the world. Elias has knowingly and continually modified her eclectic style in the service of a concentrated vision and expansive spirit, one that embraces the world, criticizes it, and tries to make it better. In this way Elias effects a subtle critique of how we understand life, encouraging us toward a more active and positive engagement with current conditions and historical perspectives. While most art would have us think outside the box and reconsider ourselves and our world, Elias art shows us how dynamic and thrilling that reconsideration can be.Somewhere-Anywhere: Sheila Elias at Mid-Career surveys the evolution of Elias art and vision, tracing it through abstraction and figuration, object and performance, pop and expressionism, and often radical changes in scale, substance, and subject matter. With a foreword by distinguished New York artist-critic Robert Morgan, Somewhere-Anywhere features a history of Elias art by noted Los Angeles critic, curator, and historian Peter Frank, who has followed Elias work for almost three decades.Printed in full color with a glossy hard cover, Somewhere-Anywhere brims with the visual vitality that has pervaded Elias work from the start and ensured her popularity with art-world professionals and the general public alike.

Sheila Elias Somewhere-Anywhere

Robert C. Morgan

Peter Frank

Arts & Photography

Nova Southeastern University

The catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 8 April to 24 June, 1984. 52 artists are included, with illustrations in black and white and in color. The catalogue contains two sections: the historical portion, "The Golden Age of Indiana Landscape Painting," with an essay by William H. Gerdts and the contemporary portion, "Indiana's Modern Legacy," with a essay by Peter Frank.

Indiana influence: The golden age of Indiana landscape painting, Indiana's modern legacy : an inaugural exhibition of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 8 April-24 June 1984

William H.Gerdts

Painting

The Museum

Issued in connection with exhibition held February 25 - May 28, 2018, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Several essays, Exhibition, Chronology and Resume, Bibliography. Richly illustrated.

Tony Delap: A Retrospective

Laguna Art Museum

Tania Mouraud

Grand Central Press

Jennifer White Kuri s willing embrace of the feminine of women-associated objects, and ultimately of women themselves is circumspect subjectively, if no less visually brash: while it centers on her own life and experiences, Kuri s art asserts not her own life and experiences, Kuri s art asserts not her presence, but her experience. We see the world through her eyes, as if perusing her diary. Kuri s viewpoint is cinematic to a great degree, but she does not star in her own painted movies so much as script and direct them (the self-portrait that completes the Dinner Club cycles a notable exception). Call it auteur painting. The history of portraiture is of course dotted with depictions that describe their subjects alone, Kuri maintains a tradition; indeed, she quite willfully extends its specific practice in the context of the Bay Area Figurative School. A product of the San Francisco region, Kuri earned her Masters in Painting at the University of California, Berkeley under Elmer Biscoff and Joan Brown, both of whom contributed crucially to the practice of stylized figuration associated with the Bay Area.

Jennifer White Kuri THE DINNER CLUB by Peter Frank

Individual Artists

Seven Locks Press

A Retrospective: Garo Z Antreasian provides an in-depth description of Antreasian's progressive career. In the 1960s, Antreasian helped pioneer the revival of lithography with his involvement in the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, which he cofounded with June Wayne and Clinton Adams. This exhibition catalog is a reflection of his artwork, focusing on Antreasian's creative output, such as the wood-constructed artwork, paintings, drawings and lithographs.

A Retrospective: Garo Z. Antreasian

Tufenkian Fine Arts Publishing

Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France: Secularism without Religion (Islam of the Global West)

Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about "Islam" and "Muslims" is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of how secularism is reasoned. Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France shows that understanding religion as separate from other aspects of life, such as politics, economy, and culture, disregards the ways religion has operated and been managed in "secular" societies such as France. This book uncovers the varying rationalities of the secular that have developed over the past few decades in France to "govern Islam," in order to examine how Muslims engage with the secular regime and contribute to its transformation. This book offers a close analysis of French secularism as it has been debated by Islamic intellectuals and activists from the 1990s until the present. It will influence the study of secularism as well as the study of Islam in the French Republic, and reveal new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities.

History

Europe

Bloomsbury Academic

Multi media book with DVD featuring life story of American painter Anne Packard as seen through the eyes of author David Michaelis with accompanying color images. Also featuring an essay by art critic Peter Frank and photographs by famed photographer Joel Meyerowitz. 30 minute documentary DVD written and directed by Emily Lau (Discovery Channel &amp; History Channel) and foreward by curator Claude Villani

Anne Packard Introspective (Individual Artists Art Monogra)

David Michaelis

Claude Villani

Claude Villani Enterprises and Skylark Press

This hardcover publication on Patrick Graham's latest works offers insightful and provocative essays by art historians and critics, Marlena Donohue and Peter Frank, and Jack Rutberg. Patrick Graham has been credited by art historians with changing the face of Irish painting, bringing it into the 20th and 21st century, and has been recognized by Ireland as a "living national treasure" through his induction into Aosdana since 1986.

PATRICK GRAHAM: fact of the matter

Jack Rutberg

Marlena Donohue

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc.

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Books by Peter Frank